remove

remove is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
2. transitive verb. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
3. transitive verb. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
4. intransitive verb. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another.
5. noun. The act of removing; a removal.
6. noun. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
7. noun. The state of being removed.
8. noun. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
9. noun. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
10. noun. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
11. noun. degree of figurative distance or separation or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"

    "just one remove from madness"

12. verb. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

    "remove a threat"

    "remove a wrapper"

    Synonyms: take, withdraw

13. verb. go away or leave

    "He absented himself"

    Synonyms: absent

14. verb. get rid of something abstract

    "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"

    "God takes away your sins"

15. verb. shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes

    "He removed his children to the countryside"

    "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"

    Synonyms: transfer

16. verb. dispose of

    "Get rid of these old shoes!"

    "The company got rid of all the dead wood"

17. verb. remove from a position or an office
18. verb. cause to leave

    "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"

19. verb. kill intentionally and with premeditation

    "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

    Synonyms: dispatch, hit, murder, off, slay

Synonyms

take, withdraw, absent, transfer, dispatch, hit, murder, off, slay

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in remove:

evermo

Common word forms

removed, remover, removes, removing, removeable, removeless, removement

Words from these letters

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